The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia, Band 14Parbury, Allen, and Company, 1822 |
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... chief book which is read in the Ma- hometan schools , and nothing more is taught , unless the teacher is desired to do so by the parents . In some instances the children continue at school after they have read the Koran , when they ...
... chief book which is read in the Ma- hometan schools , and nothing more is taught , unless the teacher is desired to do so by the parents . In some instances the children continue at school after they have read the Koran , when they ...
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... chiefs of Yapoco into office , he gives a whim- sical account . A man designed for chief or captain is belaboured with a great switch , " so that the body is all over black and bloody , and blisters rise as big as one's finger ; " then ...
... chiefs of Yapoco into office , he gives a whim- sical account . A man designed for chief or captain is belaboured with a great switch , " so that the body is all over black and bloody , and blisters rise as big as one's finger ; " then ...
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... chiefs finally settled at De - o - ghur , and the whole of this absurd story may perhaps arise out of the circumstance of the Goand Chief of that fortress having been taken by one of Aurungzeeb's ge- nerals , and carried prisoner to ...
... chiefs finally settled at De - o - ghur , and the whole of this absurd story may perhaps arise out of the circumstance of the Goand Chief of that fortress having been taken by one of Aurungzeeb's ge- nerals , and carried prisoner to ...
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... chief implements of war , in addition to the hatchet and sword . When they meditate any act of aggression , the chiefs of the villages , after fasting for a day , take in the evening two fowls , which they designate as their own and the ...
... chief implements of war , in addition to the hatchet and sword . When they meditate any act of aggression , the chiefs of the villages , after fasting for a day , take in the evening two fowls , which they designate as their own and the ...
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... Chief , not to the Governor- General . And what was the language with which the Chairman introduced the resolu- tion to that Court ? He stated , that “ The papers which had been laid before the Pro- prietors afforded proofs the most ...
... Chief , not to the Governor- General . And what was the language with which the Chairman introduced the resolu- tion to that Court ? He stated , that “ The papers which had been laid before the Pro- prietors afforded proofs the most ...
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Seite 583 - Then came sudden alarms, hurryings to and fro, trepidations of innumerable fugitives — I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad, darkness and lights, tempest and human faces, and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and the features that were worth all the world to me, and but a moment allowed — and clasped hands, and heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells!
Seite 583 - ... me with matter for my dreams. Often I used to see, after painting upon the blank darkness, a sort of rehearsal whilst waking, a crowd of ladies, and perhaps a festival, and dances. And I heard it said, or I said to myself, " These are English ladies from the unhappy times of Charles I. These are the wives and...
Seite 580 - Then it was, at this crisis of my fate, that my poor orphan companion, who had herself met with little but injuries in this world, stretched out a saving hand to me.
Seite 583 - ... daughters of those who met in peace, and sat at the same tables, and were allied by marriage or by blood; and yet, after a certain day in August, 1642, never smiled upon each other again, nor met but in the field of battle; and at Marston Moor, at Newbury, or at Naseby, cut asunder all ties of love by the cruel sabre, and washed away in blood the memory of ancient friendship.
Seite 144 - I have had the honour to receive and to lay before the Court of Directors of the East India Company your letter dated...
Seite 583 - ... issue. I, as is usual in dreams (where, of necessity, we make ourselves central to every movement), had the power, and yet, had not the power to decide it. I had the power, if I could raise myself, to will it; and yet again had not the power; for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. 'Deeper than ever plummet sounded,
Seite 582 - Romanus; especially when the consul is introduced in his military character. I mean to say, that the words king — sultan — regent, &c. or any other titles of those who embody in their own persons the collective majesty of a great people, had less power over my reverential feelings.
Seite 350 - Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart : and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour.
Seite 236 - For a' that, and a* that: His riband, star, and a' that, The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he maunna fa' that! For a
Seite 580 - To this agitation the deep peace of the morning presented an affecting contrast, and in some degree a medicine. The silence was more profound than that of midnight, and to me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silence, because, the light being broad and strong, as that of noonday at other seasons of the year, it seems to differ from perfect day chiefly because man is not yet abroad; and thus, the peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of God seems to be secure...